Chief Executive Scottish Covid Inquiry

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 257882**Salary**:

- £95,930**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Scottish Covid 19 Inquiry**Type of role**:

- Senior leadership**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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- EdinburghAbout the job

**Job summary**:
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Overview

On 24 August 2021, the First Minister announced a public Inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland. The Inquiry is judge-led by the Chair. It is the largest Inquiry ever to take place in Scotland and will investigate issues that have affected the lives of everyone in Scotland. It will take place alongside the UK (United Kingdom) Covid-19 Inquiry, investigations into Covid deaths led by the Crown Office and other investigations by independent organisations such as Audit Scotland, creating a complex landscape which requires sensitivity and sound judgment to navigate. The post is high-profile, challenging and vitally important in identifying the lessons to be learned from the response to the pandemic.

The role of Chief Executive will require resilience and robustness in order to work in a challenging, complex and time-pressured environment managing a variety of key stakeholders’ expectations sensitively - including bereaved families and a range of public bodies across departmental and governmental boundaries
- under intense media and public scrutiny.

**Job description**:
**Person specification**:
**You will be asked to provide a detailed Supporting Statement that evidences how you meet the following essential criteria**:
**Delivering in a policy and operational environment**
- Advising, supporting and setting direction in developing Inquiry policy; demonstrating political acuity and ability to influence, while working successfully with the Chair, senior legal team, senior external stakeholders and the UK COVID Inquiry, to resolve complex policy, competence and operational issues;
**Financial management and governance**
- You will be the most senior official in the Inquiry Team responsible to the chair for the overall integrity, performance, results and public value. Therefore, you will have a strong track record of securing quality, efficiency and value for money, whilst independently creating the management and leadership infrastructure to assure good governance.

**Leading and Influencing Others**
- Highly developed communication, networking and negotiating skills using personal presence and credibility and creative approaches to secure confidence of the Chair and Inquiry Counsel as well as at the most senior levels across the Civil Service and beyond; an ability to work sensitively with a wide range of external stakeholders, exercising discretion, empathy and compassion. Experience of delivering substantial programmes of work at scale and pace, achieving high quality results and value for money.

**Developing Others**
- Given the wide range of specialist skills required at different stages in the Inquiry, you will be expected to provide visible leadership, translating the requirements of the chair into complex, phased resource plans. As such you will have a strategic overview of the skills development required for the organisation, ensuring the right resources are in place at the right time.

**Leading Collectively**
- With the complexities of working productively with the UK Inquiry, you will demonstrate political acuity as you navigate the organisational system and wider public context in order to deliver operational success for the Inquiry. You will be comfortable leading in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment. In order to do this, you will be able to act as an innovator, and a creative thinker who desires to act on behalf of the public good.

**Understanding, Managing and Developing Self**
- Using your personal lived experience to both guide you and take others with you, you will establish supportive working practices and engagements across the Inquiry, understanding that ethos will become visible to the public in all their dealings with the Inquiry. Given the universal experience of impact from COVID this will be of critical importance.
- You will be comfortable sharing your experiences and challenges with others. You will know when you are at your best and be open about what causes you strain, having strategies in place to maintain personal resilience.

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:
**HOW TO APPLY**

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.- This role has a minimum assignment dur